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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. — David Hockney

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. — David Hockney

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. — David Hockney

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. — David Hockney

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look ... and paint what you see until the canvas ends. — David Hockney

I do believe that painting can change the world. — David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops - for a split second. — David Hockney

Anything simple always interests me. — David Hockney

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons. — David Hockney

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. — David Hockney

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. — David Hockney

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough. — David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. — David Hockney

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. — David Hockney

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture. — David Hockney

Easel painting means small painting. — David Hockney

He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved. — Alexander McCall Smith

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. — David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening. — David Hockney

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial. — David Hockney

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique. — David Hockney

It takes a long time to make it simple. — David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. — David Hockney

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. — David Hockney

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it. — David Hockney

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. — David Hockney

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. — David Hockney

I live wherever I happen to be. — David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. — David Hockney

Spring is very energising to me. — David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous. — David Hockney

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like. — David Hockney

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney

I value my friends. — David Hockney

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. — David Hockney

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate. — David Hockney

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful. — David Hockney

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. — David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. — David Hockney

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art. — David Hockney

Just because I'm cheeky, doesn't mean I'm not serious — David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. — David Hockney

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. — David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. — David Hockney

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. — David Hockney

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. — David Hockney

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. — David Hockney

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney

I'm not antisocial. I like people. — David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances. — David Hockney

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look — David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. — David Hockney

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. — David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. — David Hockney

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. — David Hockney

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do. — David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away. — David Hockney

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. — David Hockney

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. — David Hockney

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well. — David Hockney

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually. — David Hockney

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint. — David Hockney

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer. — David Hockney

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. — David Hockney

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! — David Hockney

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that? — David Hockney

I'm a bit of a propagandist. — David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world. — David Hockney

There would be no bohemia without smoking. — David Hockney

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. — David Hockney

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. — David Hockney

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. — David Hockney

I'm a natural sceptic. — David Hockney

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do. — David Hockney

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. — David Hockney

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. — David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept. — David Hockney

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. — David Hockney

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. — David Hockney

There are enough no smoking places now. — David Hockney

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. — David Hockney

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. — David Hockney

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney

If you are not playful you are not alive. — David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. — David Hockney

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries. — David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. — David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. — David Hockney

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney